Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1

Anatomy of a Food Corporation: Why We Can’t Trust Them

 

Chapter 2

Personal Responsibility, Energy Balance, and Other Distractions

 

Chapter 3

Freedom from Choice: Distortions of All-American Values

 

Chapter 4

Nutriwashing Fast Food

 

Chapter 5

Nutriwashing Processed Foods

 

Chapter 6

“Responsible Marketing” to Kids

 

Chapter 7

Exposing Government Complicity

 

Chapter 8

Co-opting the Science

 

Chapter 9

Eating in the Dark: Nutrition Labeling in Restaurants

 

Chapter 10

Battling Big Food in Schools

 

Chapter 11

Regulating Junk Food Marketing to Children

 

Chapter 12

Scapegoating Lawyers

 

Chapter 13

The Bigger Picture

 

 

Appendix 1

Anti-Glossary

 

Appendix 2

Guide to Industry Groups and Spin Doctoring

 

Appendix 3

Myth v. Reality: Nutrition Labeling at Chain Restaurants

 

Appendix 4

Taking Back our Schools

 

Appendix 5

Protect Your Legal Rights

 

Appendix 6

Resources for Positive Change

 

Footnotes

Index